"Karzai backs down over ‘abhorrent’ marital rape law" (Margaret Atwood novel as social experiment)

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Mr Karzai’s climbdown came a day after he said that he had been unaware of its content when he signed it. He made the claim when he met a group of women activists who organised a protest against the new law in Kabul last week. The protesters were attacked by a mob of male supporters of the law.
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One article stipulates that the wife “is bound to preen for her husband as and when he desires”. Another passage sanctions marital rape. “As long as the husband is not travelling he has the right to have sexual intercourse with his wife every fourth night . . . Unless the wife is ill or has any kind of illness that intercourse could aggravate, the wife is bound to give a positive response to the sexual desires of her husband.”
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- A suspected poison attack on a girls’ school north of Kabul made 45 pupils and staff sick. Officials said that the teachers and pupils fell ill with severe headaches during a ceremony at the school in Sadiqi District of Parwan Province, north of the capital. “It seems to be airborne poisoning,” Dr Abdullah Fahim, a spokesman for the Public Health Ministry, said.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6181964.ece

What did you expect from gods
with animal heads?
Though come to think of it
the ones made later, who were fully human
were not such good news either.

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/sekhmet-the-lion-headed-goddess-of-war/

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